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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-1060

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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-1060

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/18/2018
Created
01/21/2025
Added
01/20/2025
Modified
02/04/2025

Description

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

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